While conducting an aerial survey of northern Guatemala, researchers detected a sprawling Maya site.
Geologists in northern Guatemala have discovered a massive Maya site that stretches approximately 650 square miles and dates to the Middle and Late Preclassic period .
Using data from the scans, the team identified more than 1,000 settlements dotting the region, which were interconnected by 100 miles of causeways that the Maya likely traversed on foot. They also detected the remains of several large platforms and pyramids, along with canals and reservoirs used for water collection, according to the study, which was published Dec. 5 in the journal Ancient Mesoamerica .
"For the Maya, the Mirador-Calakmul Karst Basin was the 'Goldilocks Zone,'" study co-author Ross Ensley , a geologist with the Institute for Geological Study of the Maya Lowlands in Houston, told Live Science in an email."The Maya settled in [this region] because it had the right mix of uplands for settlement and lowlands for agriculture. The uplands provided a source for limestone, their primary building material, and dry land to live on.
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